Combine your vampiric skills with the sharp edge of your blade in this medieval vampire hack‘n‘slay. Battle through hordes of monsters to restore your honor after you, a legendary and feared vampire hunter, have been turned into a vampire yourself!

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Combine your vampiric skills with the sharp edge of your blade in this medieval vampire hack‘n‘slay. Battle through hordes of monsters to restore your honor after you, a legendary and feared vampire hunter, have been turned into a vampire yourself!

Deck13 (Venetica, Jack Keane) brings you an action-packed RPG, where you can play solo or co-op: Switch between the close-combat warrior and the crossbow wielding vampiress at any time while in singleplayer; or play co-op with a friend, joining your forces to defeat the onslaught of the evil hordes. Strike down your enemies using devastating close-combat and ranged attacks or whirl your enemies around and suck their blood using your vampiric abilities.

Key Features:

Action packed combat, close or ranged, paired with RPG elements

Switch between two playable characters with vastly different skills on the fly

Whirl your enemies around and suck their blood using your vampiric abilities

Play single player or co-op with a friend, joining your forces

Interact with the environment using your attract and repel skills

Multiple choice dialogues will affect how the world perceives the player

Blood Knights is possibly the worst game I’ve played this year. From top to bottom, nearly every aspect of this vampiric hack-and-slash is unapologetically bad, yet I find myself in an odd situation. As terrible as it is, and it really is, I enjoyed playing it.The game’s plot, which is often told through hilariously stagy dialog, revolves around a vampire-hating Templar knight who, for reasons never fully explained, gets eternally bound to a vampiress archer. Then the knight becomes a vampire himself, which really makes it a game about two vampires bound together. The obliviously shallow story continues all the way up to the game’s not-shocking-at-all ending.The combat consists of a regular “light” attack and two “power” attacks that are on cooldown timers. Characters also harness their vampiric magic to push or pull enemies and key environmental elements which sometimes became part of the game’s simplistic platforming segments. Feeding on the blood of enemies serves to replenish health and was probably the most satisfying aspect of the combat, however for reasons that are never explained away, strong enemies and bosses are immune to these powers.Hacking away with a sword and then seamlessly switching to Alysa in order to fire off a stream of arrows works well, but the action fails to evolve in an interesting way throughout the game. Boss fights suffer a yawning lack of imagination, with many encounters amounting to little more than working a strong enemy’s health down only to have them heal and send in a wave of lesser enemies while you rinse, wash, and repeat the process a given number of times.Worse yet, when bosses reach a “defeated state” the game cuts to a cinematic scene.The lack of transition and the speed at which these scenes engage is disorienting. Worse, when it happened in the middle of an attack chain ending the final boss fight it caused me to inadvertently skip the majority of the game’s concluding scene.While it’s okay to like a bad game, it’s not an excuse to call a bad game good.With so many true classics now available on download services, there is really no reason to pick up Blood Knights.Overall 4/10.

[ ] This must be one sale (bought it 0.74€, won't be worth more than 5€)[ ] You shouldn't have any expectation. If you're expecting something like Fable, Castlevania or whatnot, well... This is not the game you're looking for.

If you match both the critearias listed above, you're good to go.

Pros:***Customization system (equipement and skill trees). Weapons and armors have a cosmetic effect on the characters which is a plus.***Ability to switch between characters at will (with a small cooldown). The two characters have different gameplay and can do have separate skill trees, skill points and inventory. ***The graphics aren't fantastic but they are FAR from ugly.***Fixed camera doesn't impair the gameplay (exception : see below, in "Cons" section)***Supports local coop multiplayer***Fun to play

the Good: - graphics, sound, story, combat - controller was perfect - encountered no lag or glitches - combat is fairly strategic requiring a combination of ranged, melee, and special attacks to deal with various enemy types - the overall story was good, even though it feels rushed - local coop play

the Bad: - voice acting, writing, platforming - the dialogue needs more editing, the voice deliveries lack emotion - there are a few annoying platform jumps, mostly due to the inability to move the camera - no online coop play

This game is neither good nor bad. You'll probably either love it or hate it. The first chapter makes the game look very bad. It gets better once you move beyond the introduction so if you're going to give it a chance, then be sure to put a little extra time into it. (It's a pretty short game anyway.) For me, it's one of those games that grows on you the more you play it. It's unpolished, yet charming.

Blood Knights is just a fun little action game that's a little rough around the edges. It has potential and a little more time and money in development may have produced a suprise hit. If you're feeling adventurous you may very well find a short but entertaining story with this game. Just be prepared to look beyond some of the design flaws.

One of the worst games I've played in a long time. It is horribly generic. I bought a $3 bundle with this game in it because it looked good in the videos on the store page. It is a flawless example of good looking video then you actually play it and it's sh-ttingly bad. Its regular price of $15 is laugh out loud funny. The combat is extremely clunky and generic like something you would find at the bottom of a flea market bin like a unknown action game from 2001, and a bad one at that. If I had to pick a game to describe what "cheap feeling" is, this game is it. The voice acting is some of the worst ever and the sound and music are instantly forgettable. The graphics are dirt poor and the character mouth and body movement in cut scenes looks like sock puppets. All you do is hammer X to attack and press a few other buttons for skills. I'm not saying that that is what makes it bad though. There are a lot of great games that are button mashers. But when a game is this terrible, the fact that you mash buttons the whole time gets easily amplified into a hugely negative aspect because combat is so incredibly clunky and generic.

If you like sock puppets and soul crushingly generic gameplay, stop wasting time reading this review and buy this game right now. If you want a similar type of action button masher that actually does things right and has a good high quality feel to it, buy RAW Realms of Ancient War. That is just a good one off the top of my head. There are plenty more if you look. Don't look here though. It's like paying $15 at the carnival to go looking into the freak show to see something cool and all there is on stage are two guys fisting and blowing each other.

A halfway decent game, I'd recommend it more strongly except for a single really bad design choice, but I'll get to that in a moment.

Story was standard but enjoyable. Voice acting was fairly poor, but worked alright with the writing style I think so I didn't actually mind it that much. Environments were beautiful and varied considering the size of the development team. Gameplay was pretty good and the combat was responsive and seemed to be balanced really well. I played on normal and still died a fair few times, but always because I was stupid in combat rather than because of anything out of my control. Navigation was a bit of a pain at first, but I got used to it slowly. I did enjoy the different characters you could play and swapping between them during combat turned out to be useful. I thought it was just going to be a gimmick at first. It had some RPG elements, but nothing too great. Just inventoray management, limited skill and attribute leveling and a couple of story decisions that really didn't make a difference in the long run.

What I didn't get used to was the directed camera. I HATE directed cameras and it served no purpose in this game except to make some areas more hidden than they would otherwise be and to make combat more difficult. When an enemy is in front of me, I want to be able to see them, not have them hidden off my screen by a camera that randomly decided to zoom in on my character cause I entered a particular section of the map. I think directed camera's are one of the worst design decisions a developer can make, and it annoyed me throughout the game.

If you want a quick, fun dungeon crawler and don't mind a directed camera, then I would recommend this game. Otherwise, you may find it too frustrating with not enough good elements to make up for it.

As much as I would like to be able to recommend this game, there just isn't any good reason I can think of. So much potential seems wasted on this title I feel. It was a wonderful idea that somehow got mutilated into a horrible shell of a game. Lag is ridiculous due to optimization issues I assume, (no matter how nice your rig). Control reaction is absolutely horrid, it's as if your character has a 1 second lag on reaction time which makes for near impossible gameplay. The storyline leaves much to wish for and seems very choppy and forced. Voice acting and animation is terrible, no sync at all. I really wanted to like this game...I really did. I can't honestly say I recommend it for any reason though. As I said, it just feels like a hollow shell of what was a wonderful idea for a game. Final verdict, 3/10

This game... oh god it's bad. There is just too many things with this game that do not make it fun. I've gave this game a shot, but I just could not do it. Here is just some of the problems that make it so.

- It's a X-Box 360 Arcade game, that should say alot in what to expect.- Not interesting. The story, characters, dialogue, NONE if it is interesting at all. The game did not give me any reason to be invested in anything. Things happen and all I said was "Huh?" The farther I got into the game, the more and more I just didn't care, and just wanted to skip everything... or quit playing. Nothing is ever really explained, nor do they expand on anything that I would guess that the game you should know already.- Graphics are not as good as the screenshots make it appear. I have played around with the 1 graphical slider this game has, yes ONE slider, and I have not seen a single difference in anything. I could not get the game to look as good as the screenshots in the store page. I've even had where the lighting in a cutscene completely disappears when it's done.- The animations, man the animations. Why does everyone walk/run like they have a stick up their ars!- The dialogue all sounds like it's phoned in. The voice acting is /wrist worthy. There is no emotion in anything. In some voices, you can hear an echo from the room they were recording in!- Fighting is repetative and controles are bad. Playing as the male guy (already forget/don't care his name) plays your normal hack and slash game, but the female vampire (again) tries to have Twin Stick shooter controls, but they simply do not work well with Cinamatic Camera Systems. She has auto lock on, and won't always lock onto what ever you are pointing at, which is anoying. I've had to aim pretty far off of enemies before the lock on would even work.- LOCAL COOP ONLY! Are you kidding me?! If there was online play this game would be a little more fun to play with a friend, but you can't.- Maps/Levels are not too interesting. But my main issues is some of the "platforming" sections. Having these bad controls, and trying to jump platform to platform, only to have the camera move, and fall to your death. AND find out that the last checkpoint was 5 min ago. I've had checkpoints not go off, even going up and touching the checkpoints and still not activating, forcing me to play to the next point and hope it works.- Borderline ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ AI. I've had enemies get stuck on rocks, run off cliffs, run into water and drown themselves. I've even had enemies clip through the floor and walls.- Bugs, oh so many bugs. I've actually KILLED NPC that give you dialogue in a cutscene, and it played through normally, but you can see them dead on the ground.

The only "good" things I've been able to get out of Blood Knights are as follows:- Steam Trading Cards- Achievements- All female characters wear very reveling clothing/armor and have big chests?- Items look pretty cool, and do change what your character looks like.- There is a speach volume slider. It does go all the way to off.

... That's it I'm afraid. I personally say do not buy at all, but if you are curious and really wanna hurt yourself, as always wait for a Steam Sale. This is not worth $16.99 (CAN), or even $5. I gave this game a good try, but I can't play it. Glad I got this from a bundle.

In my opinion it have a pretty twisted storyline,its kind of interesting. But apart from it, it have bad game mechanic:~Bad controls~Bad camera auto correcting which messed up aiming and targeting of the enemy~Voice acting in the game? To flat which makes interesting character seems dull and boring

In short~ "its enjoyable to play but you will be ANNOYED and BORED easily"

This is one of those "so bad it's good" games.Or maybe it's a "so bad it sucks" game?Perhaps you should give it a go and draw your own conclusion.

While I'm a non-smoker that wears glasses and is (probably) not your dad, I'm not an expert critic. My opinion is neither better nor worse than any other (IMO).

Unfortunately this isn't the end of the review.

Blood Knights follows the misadventures of Jeremy. He was a vampyre hunter but now he's Alysa's little ♥♥♥♥♥. This might be Jeremy's story, but Alysa seems to be the one with all of the advantages. The most obvious is that she has a sweet pair of.... auto-crossbows. If you don't mind the sound of "thwip thwip thwip" for nearly 4 hours straight, Alysa is your go-to gal for massacring all of those pathetic humans, stupid were-wolves, butt-ugly undead, and wimpy demons. Jeremy is more of a diplomat. He does most of the talking while Alysa looks at him with this constant "Is this geek for real?" face.

The plot (I nearly forgot!) involves finding and protecting something called a blood seal. It's like a bandage that protects the world from devastation. Somebody or something wants to cause the deluge, which could kill millions of humans. Somehow Vampyre veteran Alysa and vampire-newbie Jeremy have to work out their differences and straighten this mess out. While there is a village for purchasing supplies and a map-screen, this is a very linear game. You can't revisit previous areas to find stuff you missed or grind out some extra experience levels. Jumping all over the map would probably take focus away from the story. That was the part where you chuckle to yourself.

Anyway, each level involves lots of killing, platforming, switches, and traps. Attribute-boosting blood coins can also be found if you're willing to poke your nose in various places. Otherwise, expect the majority of your acquisitions to be equipment upgrades. Level-ups award skill-points, which can be used to unlock skills (fascinating!). Early on you might have a little trouble, because enemies do heavy amounts of damage. This game suffers from reverse difficulty. As you progress, the game gets easier and easier. After awhile, the enemies just seem really in-effective. Most of your deaths are going to come from the janky platforming sections, and a handful of traps.

The bosses of Blood Knights are the biggest losers on the planet. At one point you fight a succubus. Wait...Actually you impale a Succubus a hundred times while she floats in the air and does NOTHING. Before that, there's a fight with some big dude who was probably Jeremy's buddy. His attack pattern is spinning around with his axe, and doing some leaping move. In the very next stage there are enemies that have that exact same move-set! The final boss is also a bum. He runs like he's skipping through a garden of posies. He's referred to as "Rome's Greatest Warrior", which is just the biggest insult to Rome imaginable.

On its own, this game isn't good. It's still enjoyable though, thanks to how unpolished it is. The voice-acting is hilariously bad, the cut-scenes are silly, and there's this wonderful aura of ineptitude throughout the game. One of my favorite moments is

SPOILERS

when you defeat the Succubus. She's talking about where the bad guys took the Blood Seal, but then makes one last attempt at seducing Jeremy. For her trouble, she gets a bolt in the chest. Jeremy gets angry at Alysa for a hot second and then says "It's just... she might have known all their plans. Now we'll never know." Alysa responds with "At least we know the last thing that went through her head."

That joke might have worked IF SHE WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD!

But, I think that's what makes it funny. If Alysa shot the succubus in the head and then made the joke, I'd probably just say something like "Seriously?" or "Oh...oh that was a joke...oh God." or *GROAN*. This screw-up completely justifies the scene.

Blood Knights is not a game I can recommend on normal terms. I'd compare it to a B-movie, but it's about twice as long, and requires you to hold a controller and press buttons. It's certainly not a good game, due to the complete lack of challenge and compelling game-design. This is something you can play high, or drunk, or on some experimental drugs not even fit for sponge consumption. Maybe that's appealing to somebody out there? I don't know.

All I know is that I actually don't regret the time I spent with this game. That's saying a lot, considering how short and precious a life is. I won't give it a thumbs up though

There are those games who do have potential and are somewhat fun, but fails in the end. Blood Knights is actually such a game. The biggest problem in Blood Knights is the camera, which is clunky at it's best and not accurate at all. In the beginning i had this problem of instead jumping on a platform above you that my char falls into the big black hole. And that happened a couple of times in an other level too. The dialogue gets on your nerves sometimes. The fighting is ok i guess. The AI however is as dumb as an ox.No, Deck13 didn't do a good job this time. Now Venetica was also not everything, but that one was better.Nevertheless it's a little fun game to play, if you look past the errors. Characters itself look quite good and the landscapes are interesting. Story is ok, not very interesting. But that camera, that nails it. And that dimwitted dialogue. If you're a fan of vampiregames and look for a game to play with a vampire, then there are better options. Vampire the masquerade: bloodlines for rpg and the first 2 BloodRayne games (available at gog) if you want an action game. If you just look for a little fun game, it might be worth a try.I would suggest then to wait till it drops in price or there's a sale. If i recommend this one? Not really, but it just depends what you expect.

This is kind of a difficuly game to review. There is a lot wrong with it but at the same time it was at least mildly entertaining enough to keep me interested enough to finish it maybe it's because it's the kind of game I like.

This game is an action third person perspective game, that has some platforming, and RPG-ish qualities. The camera is fixed and cannot be changed by the player so in a sense it is similar to Ninja Gaiden/God of War/Devil May Cry, but is no where close to those games in quality. There is thankfully no backtracking in this game, but it is very much on rails, though there are hidden areas in levels where you will find some loot and blood coins used for upgrading your stats. Loot from the chests in the game are not randomized but fixed so you will get the same loot every time from the chests even if you die and reload from an earlier autosave spot. Also the best weapons are sold at the merchant not found as you play. Saves happen at fixed spots and you cannot save whenever you want. There are 2 playable characters both fight differently. The Male one is a melee fighter and has some rather limited set of moves and can dodge. This makes the game play similar to Ninja Gaiden, but unfortunately the controls and combos are severly lacking. You upgrade your weapons as you find them but the animations are the same always and no effects happen from them even if it looks as if you have a flaming sword. There aren't any good fighting counters or timing of strikes, like you find in the better action games like Devil May Cry/Ninja Gaiden/God of War, so it's basically a button masher. The female is a ranged fighter and has no dodge, but the playstyle then changes from a Action fighting style to basically a twin stick shooter type game. Overall it is a less interesting way to play, but at the same time makes the game much easier. The problem with either playstyles is the AI is dumb as rocks. You get into range they swarm you, you back off to a certain point they retreat back to their starting positions. This makes the ranged fighter extremely easy to play, and the melee fighter lets you get out of danger temporarily. This decreases the tension and the preceived danger of encounters. The platforming parts can be a bit of a troublesome thing because of the fixed camera. There were a couple of times where I died for no other reason than misjudging the distances due to the camera angle. Some spots looked as if it were possible to make it but you can't unless you hit a switch. So in general you see a switch press it and see if a platform appears.

The story is okay. It's a vampire vs humans genre, and isn't that bad overall. The game's budget really shows here though as the voice acting is at best passable to bad throughout the game. I might have enjoyed the story more if it had no voices at all because sometimes you just cringed at some of the dialog being delivered. There seems to be some choices to be made as you go that contribute to alternate endings than the one I saw but I only went through the game once. With that said this is probably the only limited amount of replay I see in the game as the fighting and loot system don't seem to be something I would want to replay it for.

Pros:

Decent story

multiple endings

controller supported

decent graphics

bargain price

no backtracking or much filler "quests"

Cons:

Bad voice acting

Fixed camera

poor AI

poor fight system

non randomized loot in chests

best weapons bought not found

platforming can be problematic with the fixed camera

Short game length (approx 5 hours) with limited replay value

So overall I have to say I can't recommend the game, the cons outweigh the pros, but it at least held my attention enough to finish the game which is why I said it's kind of hard to review the game. The short length could be both a pro and a con in this regard. A pro because it keeps you on target to the end and doesn't unnecessarily bore you with filler side quests to artifically increase the game game length, and a con because it makes the game feel kind of short.

Game it quite hard on HARD level settings ... but still can be beat able pretty easy (my case). All the way you still got a plenty of health (but this depends how good you are in H&S games ... if you suck this "plenty" of health will be still not enought for you),

Game is then still quite good ... and its pretty addicting and still fun.

BUT !!!

I like to kill the dude who "create" this stupid stative camera view ... OMG !!! stop playing PS and XBOX games ... and try sometimes real gaming = PC GAMING !!! ...

CAMERA IS STUPID !!! because is fixed on some positions that change depends where your hero is standing.

FOR THIS CAMERA GAME SUX !!!

But still pretty fun H&S game when you wont on that camera. Buy best in sale.

The gameplay for Blood Knights is decent. Its a hack and slash with some puzzles and a few tricky jumps here and there. I used an xbox gamepad, I'd imagine it would be very hard to play with keyboard/mouse. Coop requires teamwork to get around the world, you use vampire powers to push or pull your partner over chasms, whereas in single player you can just jump without help. A little bit of character skills and stats to choose as well as weapon upgrades.

The story is ... off. The voice acting (particularly the bosses) is mostly very poor with a few times when its just ok. Its worse than B movie cheesyness. I'd say its a strong D movie in how poor the story and voice acting are.

I got all the achievements with 16 hours of gameplay. Roughly going through the game 1 1/2 times.

I'd recommend this game for its gameplay only, Cutscenes/story are horrible. Being able to get all the achievements in less than 20 hours is a plus.

Short of the long: - If you can get it for 80% off, you will be getting full value from the gameplay. - Plays best with a local co-op buddy. - Short; less than 6 hours of gameplay.- B-movie bad & hilarious for that.

5/10

So for starters, the male protagonist jaunts around like he has the gross motor skills of a four year old. The female protagonist gives a voice over with as much passion as the recorded voice that plays after the dial tone ends. Much of the other characters have similar uninspired voice overs.

It does have decent combat, it is a button masher with a few power attacks that have cooldowns. The gear progression is nothing special, most of the purchases you could make from stores should be avoided because you will be finding the full sets in the treasure chests scattered through the next area. The rpg elements seem unnecessary as most of the important power ups are automatically awarded and the skill point distibution makes minimal difference on gameplay; the fake enemy difficulty is neutralized by adding a point to make your attacks deal more damage. This leaves a rather flat experience that could have been achieved by keeping the starting gear and starting enemy hit points and damage.

I can only recommend this if you can get it on sale for 80% off or so, and have someone to play the game with you. Was not terrible, was not great, just average and a little unpolished. If there was a neutral button, I would have clicked it instead.

I just finished the game in under three and a half hour and had a great time playing.Things that i experienced- The voice acting could have been better, they all sound like robots when they speak.- The gameplay and graphics was good.- The game could have been better if the developers would have put more time into it.- The story was a little bit hard to follow since it started to hop a little in the middle of it.- If you like hack and slash you should try this game out.

Oh and one more thing...If the game lags like ♥♥♥♥ when you start it for the first time try to update graphics drivers and windows updates. That worked for me atleast.

However no matter how I try and justify this game to myself the truth is I wasted the money I spent on it and the time I spent playing it.

The voice acting is terrible, the combat is boring, pretty much none of the cool vampire abilities you would expect are in this.The story is just painful, seriously painful.

But ofcourse this isn't the worst part of it.

It is fair to say that pretty much none of the monsters will kill you, if nothing else the AI is too dumb for that.

What will kill you and kill you alot is the most brain dead camera perspective.Expect to be killed by off screen boses, have all the directions mid platformer jump, run off a cliff due to sudden perspective change.

Seriously if you want a Vampire game that is platforming and is an action rpg just go and find an old version of legacy of kain.Learn from my mistakes and dont waste your time or money on this painful experience.